An active list of resources for building a better startup.
- Get Inspired by Ira Glass
- All the startup advice you need to get started
- How to validate if your idea is worth pursuing
- The ultimate cheat sheet to starting and running your own business
- What are good ideas and how to generate them
- Tools/Tactics to getting started:
- How to name your startup
- Silicon Valley 101
- Panabee - Super useful service to find and register for domain names
- Domain name generator
- Incorporation and other tips
- What do people use to get stuff done?
- Confirm.io - Find available domains related to your keyword
- How to Start a Startup | YC Class
- step-by-step lessons, handcrafted by proven professionals
- When in doubt, bootstrap
- 300 free things
- Code4Startup - learn how to build simple/useful things for your startup idea
- Free logos - New logo designs, free to use, added every week
- Million Dollar Products
- The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
- The best lecture on creating & building product, Des Traynor
- Required reading for product designers
- How to be a great product leader
- Product Audit
- Collection of untold stories from product people
- Before your plan your product roadmap
- Lessons learned from scaling a product team
- Simple equation to figure out what to build next
- What good product leadership means
- Thoughtbot Playbook on Creating Products
- Product Inspirations
- http://paulgraham.com/fr.html
- http://www.businessinsider.com/seed-round-pitch-deck-tempate-2013-8?op=1
- Pitch Decks for inspiration
- How to find the right angel investors
- To bootstrap or not?
- http://firstround.com/article/The-Simple-Four-Step-Design-Process-for-Building-Product-Customers-Will-Love
- http://littlebigdetails.com
- http://goodui.org
- http://petithacks.com/
- http://emptystat.es/
- 52 Weeks of UX
- http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/websites-101/design-guides/where-the-best-designers-go-to-find-photos-and-graphics
- http://www.useronboard.com
- http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/where-the-best-designers-go-to-find-photos-and-graphics
- Free logo builder from Squarespace
- Outdated UX patterns
- Landing pages inspirations
- Responsive Email Patterns
- Inspiration
- Curated resources for everything design
- http://heydesigner.com/
- http://webfieldmanual.com
- Questions I ask when reviewing a design
- Stock photos that don't suck
- UI Names
- http://cssfontstack.com
- https://placeit.net
- http://www.gomoodboard.com/
- All bootstrap themes in one place
- Landing page inspirations
- Front-end development process from start to finish
- http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/
- https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/javascript-for-meteor
- https://medium.com/@riklomas/89fb47341c05
- http://ember.vicramon.com/introduction
- Tips for new startup CTOs
- Frontend Tools
- Free responsive HTML5 templages
- http://codyhouse.co/
- Bootstrap Templates
- http://beta.caniuse.com/
- http://builtwith.com
- Responsive
- Find all APIs you need - http://apis.io/
- Scalable Web App on AWS
- Free Live Chat
- Get free SSL cert
- Startup Marketing Template
- Product Hunt collection of products to grow your business or side project
- http://www.growtheverywhere.com/the-beginners-guide-to-becoming-a-full-stack-marketer/
- How Coin did a massively successful launch
- Content Marketing
- Complete Guide to Product Qualified Leads
- Copywriting:
- Referral programs
- Social Media:
- Email Marketing
- T-shirt Marketing
- Sales Efficiency Benchmarks
- Ultimate enterprise startup sales guide
- [Finding Sales Triggers: How DigitalOcean closes more enterprise deals with automated sales triggers])https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-sales/sales-triggers)
- http://blog.yesgraph.com/post/63562259689/first-1000
- http://www.slideshare.net/joshelman/josh-elman-threegrowthhacksgrowconf81413
- http://brianbalfour.com/post/63581380690/customer-acquisition
- https://gibbon.co/davidarnoux/growth-hacking-the-mindset-getting-started-tools-t
- How to think about net promoter score
- https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/6c975dede146
- http://a16z.com/2014/04/16/shipping-is-a-feature-some-guiding-principals-for-people-that-build-things/
- Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
- How to not suck at managing products
- Taste and The Zen of GitHub
- A hitchhiker’s guide to product management
- 10 rules for web startups
- http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-03
- http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
- http://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-company
- Five years, building a culture, and handing it off
- Momentum is everything in a startup
- Clef's open source employee handbook
- http://fullstart.com/knowledge/15-baseline-tech-skills-every-entrepreneur
- Get the Most Out of Your Startup's Advisors
- 44 engineering management lessons
- Don't make these basic mistakes
- How to hire and build a remote team
- Essay on qualities to look for in a senior technical engineer
- Startup Salary & Equity Compensation tool
- A system for startup compensation
- http://andrewdumont.me/avoiding-burnout
- http://blog.bufferapp.com/are-you-too-tired-to-make-good-decisions-the-rise-of-decision-fatigue
- http://blog.bufferapp.com/10-of-the-most-controversial-productivity-tips-you-will-read-today
- http://blog.bufferapp.com/thinking-mistakes-8-common-mistakes-in-how-we-think-and-how-to-avoid-them